The Daily Thing

Over at another one of my sites Tom, one of the contributors to my site, put up an article about speed running Half Dome and a 2 man attempt at speed climbing record. This morning I received an email from an organization dedicated to helping stop abuse of sled dogs. What threw me for a loop was the subject line of the email was Re: “Yosemite Speed: Half Dome Running and Nose Climbing Records”.

So this kinda pissed me off. This group, no I’m not going to do them the courtesy of a link, obviously has alerts setup for certain words (probably running) that appear on blogs. When the word comes up they email spam them. Not a very polite way to try to garner supporters in my opinion.

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To those people trying to send comment spam: I’m online and I’m watching you.

How stupid can you get?

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Well isn’t that spe-sh-ul. One word and one email address blocked and my spam went from 211 to 64. Viruses: 0. I’d call that successful.

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I wouldn’t recommend sending me an email from VirginiaPreps at AOL or any other email provider. Since I’ve gotten over 85 virus laden emails from that address I’ve blocked it at the server level so they’re not even getting in the gate now.

When I came back from camping I had over 211 emails just from Friday night and Saturday. Over 180 of those were spam or contained viral content. 20 were spam comments to my weblogs. Yes, I said weblogs. They tried to spam CampinGuy.com but WordPresses impressive spam blockade held and only one comment got through.

If you’re counting that leaves a mere 11 emails of actual legit content. So, I’ve decided to start filtering at the server level and blocking emails before they get downloaded. Yup, I’ve got Spamnet running which is effective at removing them after they’ve been downloaded but it takes time to download and filter all those emails every morning.

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Mail.app, the Mac’s built in email system, is now catching about 98% of my junk emails. Pretty good. VERY good in fact. Cloudmark’s Spamnet is only catching about 80% on the other machine.

Speaking of spam….the email addy I give out publicly garnered over 860 spam emails Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It looks like spammers are doubling their efforts.

In other spam related topics, one spammer was stupid enough to post a spam comment over at the first, and currently only, entry at CampinGuy.com where I’m in the midst of a major overhaul. Can you say “bannage”?

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I’m not quite sure what’s happened in the last week but it seems that every spammer in the world has doubled their efforts. It was so bad in fact that on Tuesday morning I subscribed to Spamnet (yes I’m sure there are a plethora of free alternatives but I like this one and it’s only $3.99 a month).

Doing a little math:

47 Monday
36 Tuesday morning
82 Tuesday-Friday (post spamnet)
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165 total spam emails in 5 days

While I realize some of you out there may get more, that’s quite a high figure for someone who used to get 10-15 a week.

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Jay Allen. Smart man. MT-Blacklist. Get it. Use it. Donate. Thanks Dane!

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